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Show Smelling In Utah w Ciwf Bauer, Utah, one of Utah's major industrial centers, where ores from Utah and other western utatea meet for reduction. (Editor's note: Inasmuch as smelting is one of Utah's leading industries, a serie3 of six articles has been prepared on "Smelting in Utah," the first of which follows.) fol-lows.) The alchemy of mill and smelter by which metals are released from the crude ore, constitutes one of Utah's major injuries. The stata's smelting industry is represented by plants of the United States Smelting & Refining Company Com-pany at Midvale, American Smelting Smelt-ing & Refining Company at Murray and Garfield, International Smelting Smelt-ing and Refining Company at field and Magna, the two largest flotation concentrating plants in the world, make Utah the world's leading smelting center. Ores from all over the West and at times foreign countries are shipped to Utah for concentration and smelting. smelt-ing. Naturally, mining and smelting go together. One complements the other, and together they are fighting fight-ing the battle of increased costs inherent in progressively deeper mining and lower grade ores, both of which are problems in Utah. Smelting has become an industry in-dustry separate from mining. During the early days of Utah mining, many companies built their own smelting plants with little or no success. Custom smelting smelt-ing was the outgrowth of these experiments. (The second article in this series will appear soon in these columns.) Tooele and Combined Metals Reduction Re-duction Company at Bauer. Lead smelters are located at Murray, Midvale and Tooele, with copper smelters at Garfield and Tooele. These plant.? together with the giant metallurgical twins at Gar- |